D D Shorter
Biographic Data
| ID | 14742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D D Shorter |
| GIVEN NAMES | D D |
| FAMILY NAME | Shorter |
| SIGNATURE | SHORTER D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4059-116X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Terminology, Time, and the Position of the Scholar
Merinda Simmons asks David Delgado Shorter to respond to a prompt/question about scholars relationships to evolving terminology
Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy (review)
Reviewed by: Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy David Delgado Shorter (bio) Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy University of Minnesota Press, 2022 IN HER LATEST BOOK, Jacqueline Shea Murphy continues the enriching scholarship that she so beautifully embodied in her previous work, The People Never Stopped Dancing (2007). Murphy devotes her attention here to h…
A borderland methodology / Una metodología fronteriza
This paper develops a flexible explication of borderland methodology, demonstrating a practical application of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories on scholarly research. This essay’s form duplicates the key insights of her book, Borderlands/La Frontera (2012). Specifically, this author takes as central an auto-ethnographic research project fostered by the support of a professor, Dr. Christine Marin. The discovery process of an undergraduate life-history p…
An Introduction to Settler Science and the Ethics of Contact
Providing the history and significance of the varied collection of articles in this American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue, coeditors David Shorter and Kim TallBear describe involvement in an Indigenous studies working group formed in conjunction with the Making Contact 2018 workshop hosted by the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center. As a whole, “Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches…
Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement
In 2018, the authors were invited to share their perspectives as Indigenous studies scholars to the work of Breakthrough Listen, an organization affiliated with both the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This collectively authored statement highlights some of the ethical concerns these authors perceived regarding the history colonialism and the expectations to find “advanced” or “intelli…
On the Frontier of Redefining “Intelligent Life” in Settler Science
This article posits that the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (SETI) remains grounded in a hierarchical and progressivist worldview that has fueled colonialism throughout history. Building upon the work of Enrique Dussel and Arthur Lovejoy in particular, the author demonstrates how previous earthly explorations produced a covering over of others, rather than a “discovery.” Those working in SETI fields must consider these histories. Th…
Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian (Shannon)
This work is a book review considering the title Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian by Jennifer A. Shannon
Confessions of an Anthropological Poser
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Shorter; Confessions of an Anthropological Poser. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 113–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.x24227741r800lq7 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference…
We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
Shorter, an associate professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, will talk about his book We Will Dance our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. After extensive field study among these inhabitants of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, he interprets the community’s ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of “historical inscription” that reveal new meanings of their legends
Hunting for History in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian Deer Dancing Epistemology
Based on fieldwork with the Yoeme (Yaqui) Indians of northwest Mexico, this article traces the ties between contemporary deer dances and pre-colonial deer-hunting rituals. The author claims that indigenous performances provide documentary evidence not only of intercultural dynamics but also of how native people think historically about those dynamics. The essay details how, in Yoeme deer dancing, community members demonstrate collective identity …
Binary thinking and the study of Yoeme Indian lutu'uria/truth
This article does not have an abstract
Defining the Canon: "A Response To Arnal and Gill's "Approaches To the Study of Religion
In issue 11-2 of MTSR (1999), both William E. Arnal and Sam D. Gill offer excellent examples of how they pedagogically approach the study of religion with their first-year graduate students. Arnal designs a fairly straight-forward course by combining Daniel Pals' Seven Theo ries of Religion (1996), with Brian Morris' Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), and a reader. Gill, on the other hand, takes a broadly com prehensive and intentionally…
A borderland methodology / Una metodología fronteriza
This paper develops a flexible explication of borderland methodology, demonstrating a practical application of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories on scholarly research. This essay’s form duplicates the key insights of her book, Borderlands/La Frontera (2012). Specifically, this author takes as central an auto-ethnographic research project fostered by the support of a professor, Dr. Christine Marin. The discovery process of an undergraduate life-history p…
Hunting for History in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian Deer Dancing Epistemology
Based on fieldwork with the Yoeme (Yaqui) Indians of northwest Mexico, this article traces the ties between contemporary deer dances and pre-colonial deer-hunting rituals. The author claims that indigenous performances provide documentary evidence not only of intercultural dynamics but also of how native people think historically about those dynamics. The essay details how, in Yoeme deer dancing, community members demonstrate collective identity …
Binary thinking and the study of Yoeme Indian lutu'uria/truth
This article does not have an abstract
Defining the Canon: "A Response To Arnal and Gill's "Approaches To the Study of Religion
In issue 11-2 of MTSR (1999), both William E. Arnal and Sam D. Gill offer excellent examples of how they pedagogically approach the study of religion with their first-year graduate students. Arnal designs a fairly straight-forward course by combining Daniel Pals' Seven Theo ries of Religion (1996), with Brian Morris' Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), and a reader. Gill, on the other hand, takes a broadly com prehensive and intentionally…
Binary thinking and the study of Yoeme Indian lutu'uria/truth
This article does not have an abstract
Hunting for History in Potam Pueblo: A Yoeme (Yaqui) Indian Deer Dancing Epistemology
Based on fieldwork with the Yoeme (Yaqui) Indians of northwest Mexico, this article traces the ties between contemporary deer dances and pre-colonial deer-hunting rituals. The author claims that indigenous performances provide documentary evidence not only of intercultural dynamics but also of how native people think historically about those dynamics. The essay details how, in Yoeme deer dancing, community members demonstrate collective identity …
We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
Shorter, an associate professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, will talk about his book We Will Dance our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. After extensive field study among these inhabitants of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, he interprets the community’s ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of “historical inscription” that reveal new meanings of their legends
Confessions of an Anthropological Poser
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Shorter; Confessions of an Anthropological Poser. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 113–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.x24227741r800lq7 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference…
Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian (Shannon)
This work is a book review considering the title Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian by Jennifer A. Shannon
An Introduction to Settler Science and the Ethics of Contact
Providing the history and significance of the varied collection of articles in this American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue, coeditors David Shorter and Kim TallBear describe involvement in an Indigenous studies working group formed in conjunction with the Making Contact 2018 workshop hosted by the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center. As a whole, “Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches…
Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement
In 2018, the authors were invited to share their perspectives as Indigenous studies scholars to the work of Breakthrough Listen, an organization affiliated with both the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This collectively authored statement highlights some of the ethical concerns these authors perceived regarding the history colonialism and the expectations to find “advanced” or “intelli…
On the Frontier of Redefining “Intelligent Life” in Settler Science
This article posits that the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (SETI) remains grounded in a hierarchical and progressivist worldview that has fueled colonialism throughout history. Building upon the work of Enrique Dussel and Arthur Lovejoy in particular, the author demonstrates how previous earthly explorations produced a covering over of others, rather than a “discovery.” Those working in SETI fields must consider these histories. Th…
Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy (review)
Reviewed by: Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy David Delgado Shorter (bio) Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation by Jacqueline Shea Murphy University of Minnesota Press, 2022 IN HER LATEST BOOK, Jacqueline Shea Murphy continues the enriching scholarship that she so beautifully embodied in her previous work, The People Never Stopped Dancing (2007). Murphy devotes her attention here to h…
A borderland methodology / Una metodología fronteriza
This paper develops a flexible explication of borderland methodology, demonstrating a practical application of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories on scholarly research. This essay’s form duplicates the key insights of her book, Borderlands/La Frontera (2012). Specifically, this author takes as central an auto-ethnographic research project fostered by the support of a professor, Dr. Christine Marin. The discovery process of an undergraduate life-history p…
On Terminology, Time, and the Position of the Scholar
Merinda Simmons asks David Delgado Shorter to respond to a prompt/question about scholars relationships to evolving terminology
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